Associated Press

New Delhi, May 13: Actress Preity Zinta is excited about promoting her yet-to-be released movie Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna at the Cannes film festival later this month.

Zinta will accompany producer-director Karan Johar to the festival, she told a newspaper in an interview.

Though not an official entry at the festival, the movie is expected to be shown to select distributors and critics for promotion ahead of its release in India and abroad.

"Karan and I are looking mainly at promoting our film at the festival," Zinta said.

The movie, whose star-studded cast also includes actors Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee, is about relationships and marriages not being as perfect as they appear. Zinta plays the role of an ambitious magazine editor.

She only acted in one film last year, a contrast to the breakneck pace most Bollywood stars put up with.

After she escaped the tsunami disaster in 2004, she stopped signing films and began to look at her life in a different way, Zinta said.

"For almost eight months I stopped working. Tsunami made me value what I have," Zinta said.

"I wrote down all the things that I am grateful about in my life. And it was quite a long list," she said, referring to her successful film career and her personal life.

Zinta was fast asleep in a beachside villa in Thailand when the killer waves struck in December 2004.

She escaped the waves but her friends who had traveled with her, could not make it. However, this is something she does not like to talk about.

Meanwhile, she is again a busy actress, shooting for three movies, which will hit the screen over the next six months or so, Zinta said.